Students Go Home As Dons Strike Rages
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The East African Standard (Nairobi)
January 10, 2004
Posted to the web January 12, 2004
Nairobi
A number of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology students have vacated the campus after staying for five days without lectures.
And those who remained have appealed to their lecturers to resume work so that they can complete the semester course work.
A contingent of anti-riot police officers from Juja Police Station had in the morning repulsed some students who had attempted to march to the Nairobi/Thika highway. Sources said there were no injuries reported during the brief clash.
Before marching to the highway, the students had engaged university staff in an exchange of words at the finance department offices after failing to be reimbursed Sh3,000 for their up-keep.
An official said the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, Finance and Planning, Prof Stephen Agong, had not authorised the officers to pay the students.
The students blamed the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Nick Wanjohi, for allegedly lying to the public that lecturers had resumed teaching.
The university re-opened on Monday and lecturers have insisted they won't teach until their pay demands are met.
Agong said on phone the management board has not made a decision on the reimbursement of money to students.
Agong, Wanjohi and other top administrators were yesterday meeting at Egerton University for a Joint Admissions Board event.
At Egerton, lecturers re-affirmed their commitment to the strike. They said talks with a Government committee had collapsed.
During a meeting at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, they were told by their representatives the talks with the Inter Universities Council's Consultative Committee were fruitless.
The dons resolved to continue with the strike until the Government accepts to increase their pay.
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Meanwhile, the university has started subsiding food to students who have been at the campus since Monday.
Food prices have been cut by half and the university has released Sh2.5 million to the 3,500 students for reimbursement of fares.
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